Hybrid economy research in remote Indigenous Australia: seeing and supporting the customary in community food economies

Local Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-32

  Buchanan, Geoff ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canada; community food economies; food security; harvest studies; hybrid economy; Indigenous Australia

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FOOD SECURITY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA;

EID: 84892532953     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.787973     Document Type: Article

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